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The Power of FOX News on Radio!Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:48:49 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Bergdal’s Former Team Leader Evan Buetow: I’m Proud of the Army, Soldiers Died Because of Bowe Bergdahl!http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/26/bergdals-former-team-leader-evan-buetow-im-proud-of-the-army-soldiers-died-because-of-bowe-bergdahl/
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Deserter! The incoming White House communications director defended the decision to trade Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban leaders last year, even as newly announced desertion charges for Bergdahl renewed Republican criticism of the prisoner swap. John spoke to Sgt. Evan Buetow, Bergdahl’s team leader at the time he went missing to ask how he feels about the latest news. He told John he is proud of the Army for doing this and no one realizes how much danger Bergdahl put his team in during that time.

Kathleen Bangs, aerospace journalist and former pilot told John Gibson today that it still is possible the co-pilot who brought down the GermanWings plan could possibly have had a medical episode. We cant rule that out still.

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]]>http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/26/aviation-expert-kathleen-bangs-we-still-dont-know-if-the-co-pilot-was-incapacitated/feed/0CO PILOT LUBITZ MASS MURDER: A NAME THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMYhttp://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/26/co-pilot-lubitz-mass-murder-a-name-that-will-live-in-infamy/
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Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked his fellow pilot out of the cockpit and then dialed landing descent into the Airbus 320 computerized flight controls. After eight minutes the 28 year old sophomore co-pilot allowed the airliner in his control to slam into the ground at 430 mph.

In the blink of an eye 149 passengers and crew were disintegrated. Small pieces of the massive airplane were scattered widely over Alpine canyons.

The cockpit voice recorder tells us the pilot locked out of the cockpit desperately tried to regain entry, escalating his attempts from gently knocking to loudly trying to break the door down. The last instant before crashing horrified screams could be heard from the passengers who finally realized they were doomed.

The law of unintended consequences kicked in for the Germanwings flight. To make certain a terrorist could not take over a flight, cockpit doors are now impenetrable and can only be unlocked from inside the cockpit.

The CEO of Lufthansa said today no one could imagine a pilot would purposely fly his aircraft into the ground, murdering all on board.

We have heard “a failure of imagination” before. We tried to guard against it and failed again.

I have flown two million miles on American Airlines, and U.S. based airlines. I have never seen a member of the flight crew left alone in the cockpit. When one pilot comes out to use the lavatory, a flight attendant steps inside. Evidently, that is not the practice among European airlines.

Perhaps Americans are more sensitive to the possibility any individual can go crazy. The Europeans were clearly more confident their societies did not have that problem. Now they know different.

At the cost of 149 innocent lives.

Do we call this terrorism? Suicide? Murder?

Obviously it is murder. The Lufthansa CEO said when a person takes 149 innocent lives along with himself it is not proper to call it suicide. Agreed.

As for terrorism, in the most basic sense of the word, yes. Everybody will now worry about pilots. Implicityly trusted only a few days ago, now not at all. That is terror.

But in the sense of the word that comes to everyone’s mind, we just don’t know. Yet.

Was Andreas Lubitz a convert to radical Islam determined to carry out an ISIS-style attack?

That’s what people really worry about.

So far, no indication of that.

So far.

Right at the moment, it appears he was just crazy, a thoughtless killer with murky, mysterious, entirely unclear motives.

It is possible we will never know. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart?

But we will learn more soon. Andreas Lubitz will be the most thoroughly investigated dead man ever.

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]]>http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/26/co-pilot-lubitz-mass-murder-a-name-that-will-live-in-infamy/feed/0Karl Rove: Passion Can Help But You Need The Money!http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/25/karl-rove-passion-can-help-but-you-need-the-money/
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Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush, Karl Rove weighs in on the early start of 2016.

The Supreme Court of the United States could knock out the subsidies provided to millions of people in the King v. Burwell case now pending. That ruling comes in June.

But for now, it’s candles-on-the-cake time.

The President’s bragging points are that pre-existing conditions are covered, people previously uninsured are able to get insurance, and premium rates can’t be jacked up because the insured person is a woman. He hit those points this morning while taking his fifth year victory lap.

What the President likes to ignore about his health care law is that people who were perfectly satisfied with their previous health care coverage are worse off. They pay higher premiums, they have fewer choices of insurance carriers, they are much more limited in choice of doctors and hospitals than they expected.

The President is also hiding a secret like a rabbit in his hat: in 2018 when he has left office the most pernicious aspect of Obamacare kicks in. That is the so called Cadillac Tax, which is designed to force employers to cut back on employer provided insurance. The purpose is to convert the cash value of employer insurance into employee pay. The government will then benefit by being able to tax a worker’s increased pay, in contrast to the employer provided health care benefit, which was exempt from taxation.

Get it? It’s a tax grab.

It’s sneaky. And it will give the government a $250 billion increase in tax revenues. And in the process little by little employer provided health insurance will fade away.

We have talked about these downsides to Obamacare for a long time. All these unpleasant aspects are true, but the cheerleaders for Obamacare pooh-pooh them, and say “look at this shiny object over here–no pre-existing conditions, your kid can stay on your policy until age 26, etc, etc, etc….”

The result is that Americans are doing what they always do when the government interferes with their lives: they complain, they mutter, they grumble, but they adjust and move on.

Which is what Obama has always counted on. A few people benefit big and their praise and hosannahs will be loud. Many people will be burdened with extra costs, longer drives, fewer choices but they will soldier on as they always do.

They may occasionally get sick, as happens. But everyday they will grow ever more sick of complaining.

It’s already happening.

That’s how Obama wins. Sooner or later most people will become accustomed to conditions they despise.

Slow boiling the frog works exactly the same way.

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]]>http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/25/obamacares-fifth-birthday-not-accepted-but-sick-of-complaining/feed/0IBD Writer Andrew Malcolm: Cruz is Great But His One Problem? What’s he Done?http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/24/ibd-writer-andrew-malcolm-cruz-is-great-but-his-one-problem-whats-he-done/
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Veteran national and foreign correspondent Andrew Malcolm weighs in on the start of the 2016 Republican Presidential Nominee race with Ted Cruz jumping in early. Check out his thoughts on the potential candidates so far:

We now know why President Obama is so angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And I don’t think it has much at all to do with Bibi closing his election campaign by saying the two state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is off. The Obama team knows that was just election rhetoric, the winning technique for which Obama himself is universally recognized as a Jedi Master. Seizing that excuse Obama and his minions are now hammering Netanyahu for supposedly scuttling the two state goal, even going so far as declaring that Israel must end its occupation of the West Bank.

But reality check! That is not it.

According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, what made Obama lava-belchingfurious was that the Israelis told Congress details of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program…details that Obama wanted kept secret from Congress.

Problem? The French, Chinese, Russians, British, and Germans, plus the Israelis know these same details of the nuke deal, but Obama was obsessed with keeping representatives of the American people in the dark.

When the Israelis revealed secret details to members of Congress, Obama went ballistic.

Let’s back up. Count the countries around the world which know the secrets of the deal. The Iranians know the details of the agreement, obviously. The American partners–China, Russia, France, Britain, and Germany–also know the details, also obviously.

How do the Israelis know?

They spy. And they are good at it.

They have sources on the U.S. side who will tell them details (Bonjour, France?), and the Israelis are able to spy on the communications of the member nations on the U.S. side. Plus the Israelis are very good at spying on the Iranians.

The White House knows all this. Obama and his team don’t like the Israelis spying, but the U.S. also spies on the Israelis, so the Obama team knows what the Israelis know. It’s standard operating procedure. Not what Obama would prefer, but according to the Wall Street Journal, not surprising.

What caught Obama by surprise, and outraged him, was the Israelis telling members of Congress what it knew about the Iran deal from its spying.

The President bitterly resented the Congress–both Democrats and Republicans–being informed of the very details known to the Brits, Chinese, Germans, French, Russians and Israelis.

Stop and think about this: for Obama the nuts and bolts of the Iranian nuke deal can be open to leaders (and one has to assume legislators, as well) on virtually every land mass on the planet except Capitol Hill.

The Israelis are not parties to the negotiations. But, according to the Journal report, he was not terribly upset that they had learned insider information. Instead, Obama was livid that details such as the Sunset Clause–essentially an expiration date on economic pressure on Iran– were revealed to representatives of the American people.

What are we to conclude from these revelations?

For me, it’s obvious that Obama doesn’t trust Congress, even members of his own party. He’s afraid of the American people. Afraid they will see through his Iranian giveaway.

One is left to conclude that he perceives of himself as a leader of the world first, and the leader of the United States second.

Obamacare turns 5 years old today but Gibson wonders what’s to celebrate? Many of the health care law’s provision took effect in 2013, and Americans have since been experiencing the effects of the law—both good and bad. Millions learned they were not able to keep their original insurance plans and more than 7.7 million received subsidies from the federal exchange. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute tells Gibson that the Government is more and more involved in our healthcare system than ever imagined.

Instead I was going to mock and ridicule her over the news making remark uttered during her last paid speech (or the last one known to be on her calendar before her expected April launch of a Presidential campaign) at the American Camp Associations (3,000 camp counselors) in Atlantic City.

She said Americans have a “fun deficit” and there should be “camps for adults.” Cute. I could see lots of fun in making fun of that.

But in listening to her remarks, I thought maybe the reporters missed something that, if not brand new, maybe was worth a mention because it is so true of Americans today.

She said, “We’re much less racist, sexist, homophobic, all of those things. But we sure don’t want to spend time with anybody we disagree with politically. That’s just too stressful.”

She went on to make a joke about how that might work in the camp counselor’s work–the red cabin, the blue cabin….you get it.

Once again, as her paid speeches are closed to people like me, maybe she says this all the time. But the remark struck me because it is both true and personal, and because the fact that it’s true is one of the real problems in our contemporary life.

I have lost friends over my politics. Not theirs, but mine. I have recently had a friend who told me on Facebook he was unfriending me because life was just too short to listen to (or read) opinions he didn’t agree with. I had to tell him that I really didn’t know the feeling, because–frankly–I’m in the business of disagreement. I engage in it all the time, and I certainly don’t choose my friends because they agree with me. That would be far too boring.

But it’s a dicey part of life nowadays. Liberals can’t stand to be anywhere near conservatives, conservatives reject any proximity to liberals.

In my case, and perhaps it’s because my relatives know how I make my living, I get slack from my actual relatives. I will talk politics with them if they like–I don’t open the political conversation myself–but if they want to give it a go I’m happy to play along. I like debate.

But these days most people don’t. They want conversations instead. Conversations are evidently sessions of exchanging words in which both parties validate each other’s point of view by agreeing, and expressly avoid conflict through debate.

Worst of all, debate now seems to be the very thing that keeps people apart.

It may be the last time I say this, but Hillary’s right. We don’t want to spend time with anybody we disagree with politically.

And it’s our loss.

And before I get a lot of grief over whether the woman who made the observation is in (large) part responsible–yeah, I get it.

What was the issue that turned Israeli voters? Only a few days before the election polls showed Netanyahu would probably lose. True, Netanyahu made a last minute appeal to his right wing voters by declaring he would not support a Palestinian state, but ultimately the Iran nuclear negotiations was clearly the decisive question: Israelis worry about Iran and they don’t trust Obama to keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. By contrast, they knew Netanyahu was totally committed to stopping Iran.

And get this! Confirming the judgment of the Israeli people, today an Obama official admitted that there are parts of the Iran deal which won’t be made public. Ever. Why? Because if you knew how bad the deal really is, you’d think as badly of President Obama as the Israeli people do.

What is pathetic and pitiful about all this is the way Obama treats Israel stands in stark contrast to the way he treats Iran’s Ayatollahs, or even Russia’s Putin. Our enemies get respect, our friends get the back of our hand.

In Sourcing? Southern California Edison recently laid off hundreds of employees, mostly from Irvine, and replaced them with tech workers from India. Gibson sat down with Ron Hira an associate professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., has researched the implications of offshore outsourcing. He testified before the committee that Edison’s situation is “a perfect, definitive case study” of how American workers are being replaced by cheaper labor from abroad.

Senator Rand Paul, junior United States Senator for Kentucky, joined Gibson to discuss running for president in 2016, Netanyahu winning re-election and President Obama violating the Constitution with a treaty with Iran.

The senator feels his decision to run for president will come down to whether he feels his message of a strong national defense and a stronger economy is resonating with voters. Paul feels very strongly that when you put his voting record up against anyone else in Washington, you will see he is one of the most – if not the most conservative person in Washington.

In a new interview with Playboy, former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of “playing the race card” and said that he could “go on for hours” about all of the ways Obama has “undone” the work of President George W. Bush. Gibson sat down with the author of that article, James Rosen, Fox’s Chief Washington Correspondent. When asked how he looked, Rosen said even after all these years ” I kind of got chills” during the interview, because he is still the Cheney we remember.

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz is a towering pile of ‘look-at-me’ ego. Always has been, and guess he always will be. But this week’s announcement from Schultz that Starbucks’ baristas will forcefully engage coffee customers in a race “conversation” has blown up in his face like a toxic machiato.

Schultz has a propensity for blowhard grandiosity. You might gasp reading a few of his most quo tables. Contenders for top pomposity include this gem: “Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.” What exactly? Lemon pound cake with extra sweet icing, maybe?

But perhaps a bigger fail in the last couple days has been President Barack Obama’s disastrous attempt to shove Benjamin Netanyahu out of office in Israel.

LOU DOBBS, host of Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business, discussed the abuse of the H-1B visa program by companies across the country. Dobbs said We have 30 million people unemployed in America, many who possess the skills needed to fill jobs that are going to immigrants who are hired through H-1B visas. Dobbs went on to say there is a collusion by the establishments of both democrats and republicans to bring in cheap labor while middle class, American born workers are being left out in the cold.

1) Starbucks is instructing its baristas to open a race conversation as they hand over the Vente, Grande, frappes, machiwhatevers, etc. The theme is “Race Together” and those words will be scrawled on your cup of coffee. That is supposed to start a race discussion while you are stirring in cream and sugar. My guess is the so called “conversation” (liberal code for “we will talk and you will agree with me) is destined to go south if the customer suggests that too many African Americans are burdened with an overwrought sense of grievance and victimization, and perhaps they ought to check the calendar and notice slavery, segregation, Jim Crow have been wiped away from everyday life in America for at least decades, and in the case of slavery a century and a half. I don’t want scalding coffee thrown in my face, so I’m guessing Starbucks is in my rear view mirror.

2) Jeffrey Williams, the 20 year old African American man who shot two cops in Ferguson in recent days is receiving support from black Ferguson activists who say he was set up by the cops. Huh? That statement was so off the charts, even a Black MSNBC anchor had to quickly bail out of the interview.

3) Liberal and black Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capeheart, a strident “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” propagandist last summer admitted today that it was a lie. You could tell his mouth was packed with chalk as he choked up the words, and he immediately retreated to the hidey-hole provided by Attorney General Eric Holder in the DOJ Ferguson Report: the Ferguson cops, judges, and city administration were all hopelessly racist when they made black people pay traffic tickets. This charge is a freebie, of course, because the practice is both condemnable and almost universal: if you’re looking for official racism you can likely find this offense committed by virtually any small (or large) municipality in the country.

4) “Black Lives Matter” protesters are still invading the white privilege haunts of white hipsters, interrupting the brunches of people who doubtless already are inclined to agree with them. Evidently the point is that agreement is not enough. There must be some additional suffering, shaming, even if it is the most inconsequential sort.

5) The latest iteration of the War On Whites, also known as “black on white crime” roared through the internet over the last couple days. You can readily see it if you missed it on television. A black female teenager attacks a white female teenager, and her five year old step brother, in a brutal beating that is explainable only as black on white hate. What is this young woman reacting to? Is it too much to suggest that the grievance and victimization narratives she hears on television, in hip hop music and at home made her feel entitled to beat a white person for no there reason than her skin is white? This is a natural consequence of the nation’s highest ranking black officials (the President and the Attorney General) repeatedly making statements that black people in American still struggle under the yoke of racism. Black on white attacks are on the rise, and the instigators travel in bubbles protected by the Secret Service.

6) Conspicuously missing from the above mentioned Department of Justice report on Ferguson is why the people who started the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” lie were not prosecuted for perjury or making false statements to the FBI. Dorian Johnson, Michael Brown’s friend and companion-in-crime told everybody who would listen that Micheal Brown had his hands up, begging officer Darren Wilson to “don’t shoot” and that Wilson (that racist pig!) executed him in cold blood. Other made the same statements. They were lying. They lied to a local Grand Jury. They lied to federal investigators from the Department of Justice, and presumably some of those were FBI agents.

It is a federal crime to lie to an FBI agent. People are charged with that crime all the time.

Why did Eric Holder’s race police decide to go easy on the people who started what amounted to a race war in America? Two cops were assassinated in New York, two cops were wounded in Ferguson, dozens of businesses were burned to the ground, their proprietors ruined.

And the liars got away with it. Scott free. Given a pass. The race police politely pretended it never happened.

Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law goes into effect on April 1, 2015. As that date approaches, restaurants across the city are making the financial decision to close shop. The Washington Policy Center writes that “closings have occurred across the city, from Grub in the upscale Queen Anne Hill neighborhood, to Little Uncle in gritty Pioneer Square, to the Boat Street Cafe on Western Avenue near the waterfront.” John debates Phillip Locker, Political Director of Kshama Sawant’s campaign and a key strategist for the 15 Now effort in Seattle.

John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations weighs in on the 2016 elections. Bolton says he’s doing all the things a potential candidate needs to do to be a candidate. Says he wants to be on the debate stage with other Republicans not simply to be the foreign policy onsicence but to be “a full 360 degree candidate.”… “If I’m in it, it will be to win.” He goes on to explain why Hillary Clinton will have some problems if she runs. Listen below:

The stars are starting to align on the Iran nuclear deal the Obama administration is putting together.

Never mind the details, at least for the moment.

Perhaps all you need to know right now is who gets to approve the deal, besides Iran.

It will be the U.N. Security Council. It will not be the U.S. Congress.

The Obama team has now made it perfectly clear the United Nations will get a yea or nea.

Team Obama has also made it perfectly clear that Congress has no role except to stand on the sidelines and either cheer or jeer, to no effect whatsoever. Emphatically. No effect.

The Administration is telling Senator Bob Corker of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to back off legislation he is proposing that would require Congressional approval of any deal made with Iran. And Senator Corker is the level-headed, responsible one, even in the view of the White House.

As for newby Senator Tom Cotton, author of the infamous Iran letter, the Administration, the Democrats, and the media have nothing but scorn for him, as the ultimate blundering butt-insky. Graybeard Bob Schieffer had Senator Cotton on Face The Nation and wanted to know if Cotton planned to write to the North Koreans, too. That’s a question designed to express the disdain of the questioner.

And Secretary of State John Kerry was asked what role Congress would play in approval or changes in the deal and he sniffed, in the style of a royal chamberlain, that Congress had no right to change anything in any deal the executive (read: the king) makes.

And yet Obama plans to take the deal to the United Nations for approval.

That might be fine if Congress were involved as well, but to exclude the representatives of the people and include the representatives of 190 foreign nations is, well, arrogant and insulting.

Obama’s disdain and contempt for the Congress has been a glaring feature of his reign, even when the representatives of the people were fellow Democrats. But now that they are the loathsome Republicans the insults know no bounds.

What people ought to take from this deal, whatever the details, and no matter whether Iran’s track to nuclear weapons is fast or slow, is that this President sees himself as representing the world, and lording over his own people in the manner of an unanswerable monarch.

Evidently bitter clingers deserve no more than his occasional glance in their direction.

Virginia photographer and Navy veteran Vanessa Hicks took what she thought were patriotic photos of a new born baby. The next day a Facebook page called “You Call Yourself A Photographer” put up the photos and said they were disrespectful. The post went on to say said both the photographer and the serviceman holding the baby “disgraced” the American flag.

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]]>http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/13/disrespecting-old-glory/feed/0Les Gelb On The 47 Senators: “They Undercut the Power and Authority of the President of the United States.”http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/12/les-gelb-on-the-47-senators-they-undercut-the-power-and-authority-of-the-president-of-the-united-states/
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Gelb feels the letter to Iranian leaders from 47 Republican senators undercut the power and authority of the President of the United States.

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]]>http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/12/les-gelb-on-the-47-senators-they-undercut-the-power-and-authority-of-the-president-of-the-united-states/feed/0Kevin Jackson: It Is A Badge of Honor For Young Black Kids To Disrespect The Police.http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/03/12/kevin-jackson-it-is-a-badge-of-honor-for-young-black-kids-to-disrespect-the-police/
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KEVIN JACKSON, purveyor of www.theblacksphere.net. & best-selling author of the book, Race-Pimping: The multi-trillion dollar business of Liberalism, not only agrees with Gibson that Eric Holder is responsible for the shooting of two officers in Ferguson this morning, he also believes that the DOJ under Holder is the most racist DOJ in the history of America.

Gibson spoke with former Attorney General, Judge MICHAEL MUKASEY, about the comments Eric Holder made threatening to shut down the Ferguson police force. Mukasey said Holder is acting “way over the top” because there is no indication that it is necessary to dismantle the entire police force. Mukasey went on to say it may be advisable to recruit more minority police officers in Ferguson.

The White House is furiously stirring up Democrats to make trouble over the letter 47 Republican Senators signed that warned Iran a nuclear deal made with President Obama, and without Congressional approval, might as well be written on disappearing ink.

John McCain signed the letter, but now has second thoughts.

Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Gibsonradio.com yesterday the Senators were not only out of line, but had committed a crime when they interfered with the authority of the President to conduct American foreign policy.

Nonetheless, there seems ample reason to object to the deal shaping up. A serious person must not fail to notice that there are serious problems with the deal the President is negotiating with the Iranians, and the ability of the Congress to influence it’s outcome. For one, Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that Congress will not be able to change the deal once it is made. That was troubling.

I also noted on my radio show that the President has said as recently as this week that when and if there is a deal with the Iranians he intends to put it before the American people. Not the Congress. Not the Senate, which is assigned the approval of international treaties by the United States Constitution.

No, what the President promised is that he would go on the road and campaign for the deal. That’s what he does. He would appear before handpicked crowds standing behind him as a backdrop and give a speech (again) about the deal, and raise it’s favorability in the polls.

No matter what McCain, and Napolitano and Mr. Gelb are now saying, I think the Republican Senators were right to send up warning flares about this deal.

And I’m not alone.

Today the Wall Street Journal published the news that the Saudis are so concerned about the deal between Iran and the United States that they are opening talks about starting their own nuclear program. What the Saudis are concerned about is not that the deal will fall apart because of Republican interference but that it will go through roughly along the lines that have been leaked. In the details that have been leaked Iran will have the ability to cast aside restrictions and inspections and any international action that would curtail or contain its nuclear activities in as short a time as ten years. Maybe fifteen.

The deal would expire in a decade. That means Iran wouldn’t have to cheat to have a bomb, or many bombs, in a short period of time. They would just wait, build their economy, stash cash, and be ready to go nuclear in just a decade.

It’s a bad deal.

And it’s not just the Israelis saying so, nor just the Republicans in the Senate. Now it’s the Saudis too.

She opted for convenience. Don’t we all?
Of course, in her case Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, and in that role was doing the business of her office, the business of the United States on a smart phone device of some sort, evidently a blackberry (though she has said she also has an iPhone, and prefers it).

Email from her device was routed through a private server at her home, as we all know by now, as she operated under a email account that was visibly and obviously NOT a goverment email (clintonemail.com).

So yesterday she comes out to speak to the issue of her keeping government email secret, and secreted on a private server to which the government keeper of records does not have access.
She said she chose this method of communication because it was convenient for her to operate off one device that sent messages through her private email rather than carry two devices, one for private email, and another for government email.
OK. Got it. People in business do that all the time. People in the media do that all the time.

But Hillary Clinton wasn’t just a business person (in fact, gaining access to her email is key to determining if that point is true), she was the highest ranking foreign service officer in the U.S. government. When she says she did not email any classified material one has to believe she was, therfore, not doing her job. How could she not email classified material? Lots of stuff, including her calendar schedule (and the President’s calendar) is classified.
She says there was no security breach of the system. Proof? Well, it was guarded by the Secret Service at the former first couple’s home.

But that’s not the entire security question. How does anyone know it wasn’t hacked if the government has no access to it?
She says she asked the Department of State to release all her email related to her work as Secretary of State. Well, OK, but these are all the emails she has chosen to give the Department of State, and only those related to her work according to her.
The server itself, she says, contains communication between her husband and herself and will therefore remain private.
That is the precise problem. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, runs a foundation that has collected upwards of $2billion from corporations and countries, many of which have abundant reasons to be doing business with the U.S. government in general or the Department of State in particular.

If anybody thinks the fifty five thousand pages of email printed and delivered the Department of State might accidentally contain a telltale email that the Secretary of State was involved in the fundraising of the Clinton Foundation I would suggest such a person is delusional. She and her staff have had years to examine every communication she was a party to in order to make certain it is a clean record.

Trust me, she says.

How about give us good credible reasons for trust, and then we’ll talk. In the meantime, what the Democratic frontrunner for the President is doing is giving anyone, even her friends, ample reason to withhold trust.

When it comes to the Clintons, granting trust has a history of backfiring and coming to grief.